Opéra de Lausanne

At the Opéra de Lausanne : La canterina and Le directeur de théâtre (February 2006), La veuve joyeuse (December 2006), La Périchole (December 2009), Peter and the Wolf (February 2011).

Jean-Pierre Gos started off as a press illustrator, in particular for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Construire Magazine. After a first experience on the stage at the Théâtre du Stalden in Fribourg with Gisèle Sallin with the text Eléonore, la dernière femme sur la Terre, he decided to take the theatre class of the ESAD in Geneva. He has worked as an actor on the stage and on screen since 1979. He has appeared in more than seventy plays and many films.

His first appearance at the Opéra de Lausanne was as the lead role of Mozart’s Directeur de theatre. He also appeared in La canterina by Josef Haydn, La veuve joyeuse, directed by Jérôme Savary and La Périchole, directed by Omar Porras.

He is also a writer, and creates mainly for theatre : Un oiseau dans le plafond, created at the Théâtre du Grütli in Geneva and performed in Paris, Ankara, Toulouse, Lausanne and Lucerne, Istanbul, then Solange et Marguerite, directed by Giselle Salin in Sion. He adapted Un Oiseau dans le plafond and created a cinema short, titled Wazo. He then launched into writing for voice, creating Les Roses blanches contre-attaquent in 1999, a musical with music by Lee Maddeford and Yves Massy, performed at the Théâtre du Grütli in Geneva and the Atelier Volant in Lausanne, then on tour in Poland. He renewed his collaboration with Lee Maddeford to create Sept Mélodies pour la pleine lune, inspired by the illustrations of John Howe, and performed at the Festival de la Pleine.